Meditations for Lent - Miracles are wondrous things - Resurrection

Although I personally do not recognize or observe the Tradition of Lent, I do understand its purpose.  Like Faith, preparation of one's heart should be a year-round event.  Every day we should be ready for the Rapture at any given moment, just as we should be mindful that at any given moment, our life can also otherwise end here on earth, if it is G-D's will.  We are to live courageously, not in fear.  And if we are martyred, let it be for the L-RD Jesus Christ, for the blood of His martyrs is the seed of the Church (as the ancient brother Irenaeus informs us).  By our witness and our words of faith in Christ, let us be remembered in echoes and those who have believed because of us, down through eternity. 



Meditation :  Miracles are wondrous things - Resurrection

Scripture -  Gospel of John 12:9-11
9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.


When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the attraction was about as much to the miracle of a resurrection as to that of Jesus Himself. 

The people gloried in the miracle.  And the chief priests -- knowing that Lazarus was 4 days dead, producing worms out of the nostrils and in stink, and whatever other deteriorations happens at 4 days of death with a decaying body -- gloried NOT in the miracle, and the sign that this WAS Christ, rather moved their hearts to murder Lazarus, in order that they might rule over Israel as religious oppressors and demi-gods, and that Israel might no longer believe into their rightful Messiah, Christ the rightful King, of the seed of King David. 

The early Church Fathers tell us that those Jesus raised from the dead (by implication: Lazarus, Tabitha, etc.)  would go on to live another 87 years and more, until the reign of Caesar Hadrian, who came to power in 117 A.D. 

For many Christians in our day, such miracles are often beyond the scope of belief or comprehension.  Why should that be?  In America, it seems we have been infiltrated by unbelievers and apostates in both the congregation and in the ministry.  The pop-culture of today's modern Churches look to the Christian Church as being just another social network or social club, or place of philanthropy, and insist that the Bible should only be read and believed privately in the home, these should be unwelcomed by believers.  Often time, leftist agendas are pushed as if they are Gospel, and the Gospel as if amusing stories of faith to be praised, or manipulated into a humanist message, or simply tolerated and fawned at.

Lent is supposed to be a time of preparation of the remembrance of the Death, Burial and Resurrection of Jesus.  It is a definite fact of human history.  There is no molding of Christianity into whatever fad or preconceived political agenda we have today...it is entirely opposite.  We are to mold our agenda into those parameters and points which the Bible gives us.  We are to mold our daily lives and reflections into doing that which pleases G-D and is within the parameters of His will for ours lives.  We are to fully believe G-D first and foremost, and daily learn to trust Him more in the areas in which we have difficulty...hence, to be in the world and not of the world system. 

This life and born-again experience is meant to be like a resurrection from out of the world system, where we learn in the here and now, as we prepare to be citizens of Heaven upon our departure or death, and later those citizens of Heaven on Earth in the World to Come  in Christ's Kingdom.  

If we should come to those times when we see miracles of a truly profound experience, far above the many little miracles G-D provides us each and every day and hour in our lives...seek G-D and ask that He would (through the person of the Holy Spirit) give us the eyes and mind of discernment, and the ears to hear what the Holy Spirit says to us, as He speaks in wisdom advising or warning us in the whispers of the mind's ear(s). 
 
 
Prayer:
Almighty G-D, thank you for the miracles you provide us, great and small, for our benefit and our edification.  Help us to always glorify You, Father in Heaven, through Thy dear Son Jesus Chrsit whom Thou hast sent, and who for the saving of and redeeming of our souls and lives, died upon the Cross, paying for our sins, was buried, and rose the Third Day, as foretold in the Holy Scriptures.  Help us to know that Thy dear Son's Redemption of all who by faith believe into Thy dear Son, and thereby believe into You, is the greatest miracle of all, for by that act of faith and Your will, our lives are turned from mortal and perishing unto that which is eternal.  We are written in the Lamb's book of Life, and our souls are redeemed to You, with the promise of that new eternal body Thou wilt provide us through Thy dear Son Jesus Christ, with whom we shall go with forever and ever.  Thank you for the gift and promise of the Resurrection, both in the witness of  Lazurus, and that of thy dear Son's eternal Resurrection...now seated at Thy Right Side in Heaven, until You give the word that He should come for His Church, and remove us before the Time of Wrath, and again before the Time of Thy Great Wrath, after the manner of Enoch and Elijah's ascents. 
 
Our thoughts upon Christ hanging upon the Cross, having paid for our sins.  Selah.
 
Thank you for our Salvation, and the payments of all our sins for all time through the shed blood of Thy dear Son.  Selah.
 
Amen. 

Psalm 110 - in KJV and AWPR (Alternate with Word Pictures and ReiterationsTranslation)

The AWPR, Alternate with Word Pictures and Reiterations translation is my work product, intended for an enhanced understanding of what is made available to the mind of the rabbinic Hebrew reader in an English translation format. The translation is in strict adherence to the Hebrew's intent and adhere to only the possible linguistic translations. Because the Biblical Hebrew has less than 9,000 primary words and the English language has more than 500,000...for that reason, it sometimes takes a good many words to get a point of a word picture or word pictures across in the English language. The King James is an excellent terse literal Hebrew translation of the Scriptures, but for those who want a little more before going into the Hebrew themselves, or to perhaps encourage and excite them to do so, I offer the following inspiration to help motivate them to do so.

Shalom in Christ Jesus,
Brianroy

(Large print = KJV translation, small bold print = AWPR translation)




Psalm 110


1 - The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

1) An oracle statementof YHVeH to    My Master / My Lord.
    Sit, remain and dwell at My Right Hand /  Sit, remain and dwell at My Right Side
    until I give over, setting and appointing
    Your enemies who hate (You) with hostility
    as a footstool for the dominion of your feet. 

2 - The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

2)  Like an overspreading bedsheet,
     the Staff of your strength shall send forth YHVeH out of Zion: 
     in the inner midst and among those hating You as your enemies,
     tread with domnion / over-rule / and scrape (them) out. 


3 - Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

3)  Your kinsmen from the fathers
      shall do noble deeds and be willing
      in the Day of your firm enduring power and might;
      (they shall be as) the adorning glorious array of you holiness,
      as (those coming forth) from the womb
      of the first light of the day in a pre-dawn sky lighting across the heavens,
      and (shall be) as the falling / dripping dew of your childhood / youth.


4 - The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

4)  YHVeH has sworn a solemn seven-fold oath,
      and NOT will (He) breathe deep with sorrow / regret / or repentence
      (He will NOT change His mind
       and reverse course on what He has sworn and is resolved to do)
       NOR will (He) have need to be comforted.


      You are a Kohen, a Priest to the ages, to forever,
       above, ascended beyond in height,
       according to the manner / cause / reasoning of
       bearing (the title of) and being
       Malchizedek
       King of Righteousness /
       (He who is) the fullness of the burning branding of the consuming fire of Righteousness.



5 - The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

5) The Master / Lord
    at Your Right Hand / at Your Right Side
    severely wounds with a lethal and decisive blow
    striking / shattering kings
    in the Day of His Wrath /
    in the Day of His Great Displeasure
          (as if a sudden point of fury at being offended at mankind's sins).



6 - He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

6)  He shall judge the nations,
     raising the Hand
     vexing them with great emotional affliction and tribulation
     which He will fill or make full with corpses.
     He will severely wound with a lethal and decisive blow,
     striking venom / gall
     over a great many lands of the Earth from high above the Earth.




7 - He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.



7)  From the wadi brook torrent in the Way
     (of the Wide Course in the Wilderness)
    He shall drink down (as though He were consuming wine at a feast);
    and setting (all things) aright / upright from above
    He shall lift up the head.

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Comments in brief:
In regard to verse 1.  To what is referred by the phrase "until I make thine enemies thy footstool" or the expanded and reiterated word picture translation "until I give over, setting and appointing Your enemies who hate (You) with hostility as a footstool for the dominion of your feet"?   In Scripture, such as through Isaiah 52:7 we see that the Gospel of Peace is carried by the feet of him who brings Good News (i.e., the Gospel). 


In regard to verse 2 "like an overspreading bedsheet" is the Hebrew referring back to the event of G-D coming down upon Mount Sinai, even as Rashi refers to in commenting on Exodus 19:20:
vayaired YHVeH al-Har Sinai {"And came down YHVeH on Mount Sinai"} -
Because it says in Exodus 20:19 "You have seen that from the heavens I have spoken to you"...
"It teaches that He bent the Upper and Lower Heavens, and spread them over the mountain [of Sinai] like a sheet on a bed / couch and the Throne of Glory descended upon them."


In regard to verse 4, he will not need to be comforted.  There is a popular quote used at synagogue and among Jews that says: Nahamu, nahamu ammi - "Comfort ye, comfort ye My People" from Isaiah 40:1.  G-D who knows everything, including the future, will NOT be placing Himself in a state of grief or regret in making the Son of G-D, Jesus Christ, after the order of Melchizedek. 
Mal = Fullness, ki = the burning branding or branding fire that consumes, tzedek = righteousness.

Psalm 14: King James Version and Expanded from Hebrew with word pictures and reiterations, verse by verse

The AWPR, Alternate with word pictures and reiterations translation is my work product, intended for an enhanced understanding of what is made available to the mind of the rabbinic Hebrew reader in an English translation format.  The translation is in strict adherence to the Hebrew's intent and adhere to only the possible linguistic translations.  Because the Biblical Hebrew has less than 9,000 primary words and the English language has more than 500,000...for that reason, it sometimes takes a good many words to get a point of a word picture or word pictures across in the English language.  The King James is an excellent terse literal Hebrew translation of the Scriptures, but for those who want a little more before going into the Hebrew themselves, or to perhaps encourage and excite them to do so, I offer the following inspiration to help motivate them to do so. 

Shalom in Christ Jesus,

Brianroy


(Large print = KJV translation, small bold print = AWPR translation)

Psalm 14


(KJV)

1 -  The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

[Alternate with word pictures and reiterations -- AWPR]
1)   Has said, the fool in his heart:
              'There is no G-D: 
                          for they acted destroyingly to the point of great disfigurement,
                          and they erred in the Way of Abominations in their deeds. 
                          None is doing good!'
                                         
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(KJV)

2 -   The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

[AWPR]
2) YHVeH looked out and down from the great height of Heaven upon the sons of Adam (upon humanity / upon mankind),
    to see and perceive if there were any paying attention with intelligent knowledge and consideration, and to carefully seek and know GOD.

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(KJV)
3 -  They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.



[AWPR]
3) All turn aside and away. 
 Together they are morally corrupt and filthy. 
 None is doing that which is good-pleasant-right-and-beneficial, not even one!

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(KJV)
4 -  Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.


[AWPR]
4)  Not have known and distinguished all workers of iniquity,
     not have known and distinguished all deed doers of evil who harass
            (who) devour and slander My People
             as if they are in the act of eating bread.
             YHVeH have they NOT called on, so as to meet and encounter (Him). 

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(KJV)
5 -  There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.


[AWPR]
5) There they feared with dread and trembled with the trembling thigh,
    for GOD is in the generation, in that genealogical circle of time,
    in the life of the righteous one(s), from their birth to the grave.

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(KJV) 
6 -  Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.


[AWPR]
6)  You have purposely given and devised a counsel
      to put the poor to shame and disappointment
      because YHVeH is his safe and secure stronghold and refuge of praise and delight.

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(KJV)
7 -  Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.


[AWPR]
7)   Who will give over [as to a sacred service/labor of the priests]
       out of Zion
       the coming Salvation of Israel
       when YHVeH turns back and restores His people?

       Jacob shall circle around, rejoicing;
       and Israel shall genuinely rejoice
       as though pouring forth exuberant and effortless merriment from the heart. 

Reflections -

In the 1950s, America was once free to have popular Protestant Christian Worship shared with secular entertainment with class...so much so, that major celebrities like Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming eagerly and happily participated is spreading the Gospel in musical format.



Less than 30 years later, in order to see the Gospel shared on television, one had to almost exclusively look to specific programs supported by donations of viewers to the ministry. 

Jimmy Swaggart - Gone.   (A resurrection song about Jesus)


And almost 30 years after that, sometimes in order to share the Gospel on a college campus, sometimes it seems it must be relegated to a wordless artistic musical expression.

Celtic Acoustic Guitar with Phil Keaggy


America...the more it slides and moves away from G-D and the exclusive Gospel of Jesus Christ, the more it falls out of the manifest grace and invisible support of G-D to uphold its society against all enemies, foreign and domestic. 

It has us asking at times, what is the plan of G-D in all this?  How much will G-D allow?

We as human beings are made up mostly of water, and given an animal form, drawn from matter sourced in and of the soil.  The Bible shows that water as a material substance, was originally sourced in G-D from his throne.  In the exposition of Scripture, I have shown through that which happened at the Cross and through the Revelation 22:1 and Ezekiel 47:1 ff.,  we can understand that in the Millenial Reign of Jesus Christ (after that humanity has almost been obliterated), the waters of life shall trickle from the heart and the spear-hole in the side of Jesus, and as it flows from His Throne, it will grow and grow until a mighty river, and give living and healing waters that will make life flourish as never before upon the Earth.  Wheat heads giving 10 pounds of fine clean flour per head of wheat...grapes so huge, just peel back the skin, dip in the bucket, do it once or even several times, and close the skin back up if you wish. 

Since G-D will give such life then in Nature, what about us, right now?  We are made 9/10ths of a substance of water, and 1/10th of material substance (generally speaking).  When G-D created our first father, Adam, in the Earth, like in Ezekiel 37, the earth formed of itself and the mist of the ground the sinews and bones of the first man.  But in his animal form, even with a soul of life, Adam was not a son until G-D breathed into Adam's nostril the soul of lives, so that man by the breath of G-D became a literal spiritual son to G-D, and the sound of the inhale and exhale breath became the very name of man's Creator. 

When Adam fell in disbelief and sinned, the second soul, the higher soul of G-D's union, was as if a flame put out...a pilot light waiting for the means and operation of faith / belief into the one whom Adam had disbelieved, YHVeH Messiah / Jesus Christ, in order to be re-lit.  But because of sin and falling away was done while the higher soul was housed in an animal form of the human body, the body also needed to be atoned for as well.  The operation of that atonement in the body, Jesus took care of at the Cross, because it became appointed for man to die once in the body, and after that: Judgment.  By clothing Himself in the same flesh as Adam's opposite, the flesh of the virgin, Christ undid in the flesh what Eve had done in ignorance, though Adam followed after in disbelief willingly.  By being lifted up upon the Cross, upon a tree, Christ through the operation of faith undid what the creature Satan did in the operation of creating unbelief when he caused the murder and robbery of the soul Adam, killing man's soul and stealing that soul of life from G-D the Creator. 

We who believe and confess Jesus unto salvation (Romans 10:9-10, 13) are given the option and sure promise of an eternal life in the ages to come beyond the greatest bountiful expectancy one could have in any day or moment of life in this age, and in the age to come that excellency far exceeds 100 fold ever micro-second of eternity to come. 

The Greek word zoe, is best translated as eternal living life in its application in verses such as John 3:16, for example.

And yet, short of the Enochian or Elijahn Rapture, we are souls behind the eyes of our sight, behind the hearing of our ears, behind the senses of touch, or even that of intellect and emotion.
We are as spirits in mortal bodies, recognizing that mortal death is still yet a price we must all pay for being born.

What do we do in this world while we have time?  Do we constructively bring order, find the treasures of the hidden things of G-D in his Creation and in the souls of those around us?  Do we tell them of John 3:15-16, and lead them to that eternal living life that is to come to those who believe and trust into Jesus and what he did at the Cross and through his resurrection and ascension?  How many pilots of dead souls in humanity are lit into eternal life because of us, and the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? 

The many of all humanity are indeed called, but the few who believe and trust into Jesus, and what he did by coming to die upon the Cross and be raised from the dead, to be the First Fruits unto G-D the Father, and show us the way, that we need not fear death when we are in Him; yea, we few are chosen.  And the many, are as souls behind the eyes of their human bodies, lost within with a terror of death and the death that is beyond death (as if a death after-death).  They chose the euruchoros, the broad way of the open countryside as wide and as far as the eye can see, where every way and path is right in their own eyes...and their is NO way out, but to perish into oblivion.

"But whosoever comes to Me," Jesus says of Himself, "I will in no way cast out."

"For G-D so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,
 that whosoever believeth into him  should not perish,
but have eternal living life."  

Trust and believe into Jesus Christ, for He also says,
"Blessed in he,
whosoever
 shall not be offended in Me."

Shalom.

The Third Temple: Animation as to the plan for the Hall of the Sanhedrin, formerly the Hall of Hewn Stone, and a Sanhedrin Representative's confession of the Ark of the Covenant's present existence

From 48 seconds following, you will see the Temple Institute of Jeusalem's planned Entrance area and then the Chamber of the Hewn stone.  This updated version of the meeting place of the Sanhedrin and its guest balconies is a first animation of actual blueprints on file in Jerusalem.



The Ark of the Covenant

Rabbi Richman states that the Ark of the Covenant was never lost.  It has been known secretly to be in a specific chamber under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in a specific location under the Mount, and this has always been known among a selected few.  They are certain they can retreive this Ark of the Covenant at any time.  Meaning, at some point in time in the last two decades, there had to be a visible confirmation to state such with the 100% confidence with which he, as ambassador to us Gentiles (those of us of the nations), can so affirmatively state as so.